Federal File: Implication; Resignation

Amid the media scrutiny of President Clinton and Mrs. Clinton's business dealings that centers on the Whitewater land development in Arkansas, a Long Island, N.Y., newspaper has even probed the First Lady's links to a think tank that specializes in education and training issues.

On April 3, Newsday reported that the National Center on Education and the Economy paid Hillary Rodham Clinton $101,630 in 1991 to promote recommendations issued by the center's Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce.

The panel had produced a report, "America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages,'' in 1990 and sought a prominent figure to promote the workforce-skills program it outlined, Marc S. Tucker, the president of the...